Fare box holder



FARE BOX HOLDER.

APPLICATiON FILED [5505. I919.

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W. COX.

FARE BOX HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED oscs. 19m.

Patented Jan. 18, 1921 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM COX, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

FARE-BOX HOLDER.

Application filed December 5, 1919.

city of Toronto, in the county of York and Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fare-Box Holders; and. I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to a holder for a type of fare box operating on the principle of that shown and described in Letters Patent of the United States No. 1135264, in which the fares are deposited in the examining chamber and detained by a trap for inspection by the party in charge ofthe fare box until the fare box has been moved to an inclined position for the delivery of the fares from the examining chamber to the storage chamber, from which they are prevented, by the trap, from returning to the examining chamber, the object of the present invention being to so construct the holder that it will be necessary to move the fare box to an inclined position before it can be removed from the holder and thus insure the fares which have been deposited in the examining chamber, being delivered to the storage chamber, as hereinafter set forth and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1, is a perspective View of the fare box holder, and a fragment of the fare box,

Fig. 2, is a sectional elevational view, showing the fare box container and fare box in an upright position,

Fig. 3 is an elevational view showing the fare box container and the fare box in an inclined position, and

Fig. 4, is a fragmentary sectional view of the fare box and container taken at rightangles to Fig. 2.

Like characters of reference refer to like parts throughout the specifications and Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 18, 1921.

Serial No. 342,616.

a horizontal plate (27," and an upright plate d", the horizontal plate d having a rearwardly projecting lip (l to which is hinged the oscillatory member comprising the fare box container 6. The standard and the casting 0, however, may be dispensed with and the head d in that case may be fastened directly toa suitable supporting structure.

This fare box container consists of a bottom and four upright sides, one of the upright sides 6 being adjacent to the upright plate and substantially in contact with it,

- and the top of the fare box container being open to admit of the entry of the fare box therein, the internal shape and dimensions of the fare box container being of the shape and dimensions of the corresponding part of the fare box. 1' i Connecting the fare box container to the lip d is a spring hinge f, normally maintaining the fare box container in an upright position, this hinge being preferably riveted to the back of the fare box container and to the lip (P.

In the upright plate 0, is a curved slot the are of which is concentric with the center of the hinge pin 7'', and at the rear end of the curved 'slot ti is a substantially vertical slot d extending to the top edge of the upright plate, this vertical slot (Z form- .1 mg the entrance to the curved slot (2*.

In the upright side 6 of the fare box container is a vertical slot 0, extending downwardly from its top edge, this slot being in line with the forward end of the curved slot (5, when the fare box container is in an upright position.

That part of the fare box 0 to be inserted in the fare box container, is of correspond- 111g shape and dimensions to the interior of the fare box container and projecting from the fare box side 9, adjacent to the side 0, is a headed. stud 9''.

hen the fare box is inserted in the fare box container the shank of the headed stud 9" projects through the slots 6" and d, and the head of the stud overlaps the sides of the slot d, the walls of which engage the headed stud and constitute a means to prevent the removal of the fare box from the container until the container has been moved to an inclined position to bring the slot 6 into line with the slot d.

When the fare box container is in its upright position the entrances to these slots, c, d are out of line, and remain so, until the fare box container is tilted to the inclined position shown in Fig. 3.

In the assembly of the fare box and fare box container, the base of the fare box is usually inserted in the fare box container when the latter is in an upright position, and is pressed down until the stud g enters the slot 6 and comes to rest on top of the upright plate cl".

The fare box and the container are then drawn rearward to the inclined position shown in Fig. 3 until the entrance to the slot 6 and the shank of the stud come into line with the ent'ance to the slot 0Z which the stud then enters, the fare box is then pressed home into the container until the stud reaches the junction of the slot 03 with the slot (F, the arc of which is on a radius from the center of the hinge pin f. The fare box container and fare box can then move forward from the inclined position shown in Fig. 3, to the upright position shown in Fig. 2, the stud during such movement traveling forward in the slot (i the upper wall of which by preventing the vertical movement of the stud therein locks the fare box and container together.

During the use of the apparatus the fares are deposited in the examining chamber 2 where they are detained by the trap 2 until the party in charge of the fare box has examined them, after which the fare box is moved from an upright to an inclined position for the delivery of the fares from the examining chamber to the storage chamber a, and returned again to the upright position, the spring hinge 7 resisting the movement from the upright to the inclined posi tion and assisting the movement from the inclined to the upright position, the strength of the spring hinge being suiiicient to return the fare box to the upright position, should the party in charge neglect to do so.

When the fare box is in an upright position the trap 2, remains closed to retain the fares in the examining chamber, from which it might be possible to extract them especially if the fare box could be removed from the fare box holder and inverted before the fares were delivered to the storage chamber.

To obviate this, the fare box holder has been so constructed that it is necessary to move the fare box container and the fare box to an inclined position before they can be separated and iii-this position the trap 2 opens and permits the fares in the examining chamber to pass into the storage chamber, the trap, when the fares have been deposited in the storage chamber, operating to prevent their return to the examining chamber. To insure the fares being delivered from the examining chamber to the storage chamber the fare box container and the fare box are moved to the limit of the inclined position shown in Fig. 3, before the stud comes into line with the upright slot d, and it is while the fare box and fare box coin tainer are moving to this position that the delivery of the fares from the examining chamber to the storage chamber occurs. When the fare box and the fare box con tainer have been moved to the limit of the inclined position shown in Fig. 3, the headed stud can be withdrawn from the slots 0, 6Z d and the fare box can be removed from the container for transportation to its place of delivery.

To prevent fares being deposited in the fare box container when the fare box has been removed therefrom, the fare box container is provided with a hinged lid 7), which is displaced by the entry of the fare box into the container, and which automatically closes the top of the fare box container when the fare box is removed therefrom. 'lo prevent the removal of the fare box from the container by unauthorized parties, the fare box holder may be provided with suitable means 0 lying across the slot (Z and closing the exit therefrom. The means 0 may take the form of a metal strap as shown in F l of the drawings, or may take any other form within the scope of the claims, such for instance as a lock which will prevent, or at least make it difficult for the fare box to be stolen from the holder.

From the foregoing description it will be ascertained that the fare box holder consists essentially of a relatively stationary member, and an oscillatory member, so constructed as to retain the fare box until it has been moved to a position for the delivery of the fares to the storage chamber, and that the walls of the slots 6, 03', (Z and the headed stud constitute locking means to rcleasably secure the fare box to the holder. Other means within the scope of the claims. however, may be substituted for those above described to secure the fare box to the holder until the delivery of the fares to the storage chamber has taken place. 7

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination a fare box and a fare box holder comprising a relatively stationary member, an oscillatory member movable from a fare inspection to a fare storing po sition and means forming a sliding connection between the fare box and stationary member to retain the fare box until the oscillatory member has been moved to the fare storing position.

2. A fare box holder comprising a relatively stationary member and an oscillatory member, one of said members having a vertical slot and the other member having a slot in curved relation with the vertical slot to receive a corresponding part of the fare box, whereby said members co-act to retain the fit) .llU

fare box until it has been moved to a fare storing position.

3. The combination of a fare box having a headed stud projecting from one of its sides, and a fare box holder comprising a relatively stationary member, and an oscillatory member movable from an upright to an inclined position, one of said members having a vertically disposed slot and the other member having a slot in curved relation to the vertical slot to receive the headed stud and necessitate the oscillatory member being moved to a fare storing position before the fare box can be removed therefrom.

4. A fare box holder comprising a hollow oscillatory container, having a vertical slot in one of its upright sides extending to the top edge thereof, a relatively stationary member, having an upright side adjacent to the slotted side of the container and having a curved slot therein, the upright slot in said container being at the front end of the curved slot when the parts are in their upright position and the entrance to the curved slot being in line with the vertical slot when the container is moved to its inclined position.

5. A fare box holder, comprising a stand, a fare box container, means for hinging the fare box container to said stand, permitting the container to move from an upright to an inclined position, one of the sides of the container having a vertical slot extending to the top thereof and an upright member for the stand contiguous to the slotted side of the container having a curved slot the arc of which is described from the hinging means, and the entrance to the curved slot being in line with that of the vertical slot when the parts are moved to their inclined position.

6. In combination a fare box and a fare box holder, comprising an oscillatory container movable from an upright to an inclined position, a relatively stationary member, means connecting the container and stationary member permitting of the oscillation of the container, and means establishing a sliding connection between the fare box and stationary member to retain the fare box in the container until it has been moved to an inclined position where the separation of the fare box .from the fare box holder can take place.

7. A fare box holder, comprising an oscillatory member movable from an upright to an inclined position, having a slot in one of its sides, and a relatively stationary member, adjacent to the slotted side of the oscillatory member, having a curved slot therein, the arc of which is concentric with the center of the oscillation, the entrances to said slots being out of line except when the fare box is in position for the delivery of the contents.

8. In combination a fare box and a fare box holder, comprising a relatively stationary member, an oscillatory container, and means establishing a sliding connection between the fare box and stationary member to retain the fare box in the oscillatory container, releasable when the oscillatory container has been moved to a position for the delivery of the fares to the storage chamber of the fare box.

9. The combination of a fare box and a fare box holder comprising a member movable with the fare box from a fare inspection to a fare storing position, a stationary mem her and a moving connection between the fare box and the stationary member preventing the removal 01 the fare box from the fare box holder when it is in the fare inspection position and permitting of its removal when it has been moved to the fare storing position.

10. A fare box holder comprising an oscil latory member movable from an upright to an inclined position, having a slot in one of its sides and a relatively stationary member adjacent to the slotted side of the oscillatory member, having a curved slot therein, a fare box, a moving connection between the fare box and stationary member operating in said slots, and means preventing the re moval of the fare box from the fare box holder.

11. A fare box holder comprising an oscillatory member movable from an upright to an inclined position, having a slot in one of its sides and a relatively stationary member adjacent to the slotted side of the oscillatory member, having a curved slot therein, a fare box, and a moving connection between the fare box and stationary member operating in said slots.

Toronto, September 19, 1918.

WILLIAM COX.

Signed in the presence of M. J. GlLor-nus'r, CHAS. H. RIoHEs. 

